Chinese
Bibles
For
a £1 investment you could pay for the production and supply
of a good quality Chinese Bible. Our thanks go to Zak Dendy (9
years old!), for raising the first £4.00 to provide 4 Bibles.
How about encouraging your children to put aside a small amount
of pocket money for this great cause?
LifeWater
Kits
Bringing
Clean Water To A Thirsty World
For
a £30 investment you could provide clean water to a community,
school, church or extended family for over a year. In a world
where daily the equivalent of 25 Jumbo Jets full of children die
for lack of clean water; here is an affordable, low-tech answer
to one of the biggest challenges of modern day healthcare.
Links
International is currently working in partnership with Watchmen
International on this highly effective weapon against waterborne
disease, sickness and diarrhea even in the most demanding circumstances.
One recent independent study of the ceramic filters in Zimbabwe
and rural South Africa showed reduction in dysentery and diarrhea
of more than 80%, concluding that these filters are ‘an effective
point-of-use intervention for reducing E-Coli and diarrhea in
African households.'
Based
on these highly positive studies we are now testing out the filters
in a number of various situations and diverse geographic locations
from rural African villages to urban Indian towns to villages
in Amazon rainforest.
Added
to the tremendous health benefits that come from drinking clean
water, the social benefits can also be profound, leading to children
spending more time in school and adults spending more time at
work. Absenteeism, due to sickness in the African school in which
clean water kits were installed, immediately dropped from more
than 45% to less than 5%.
We
are working with a ceramic filter produced by Royal Doulton (British
Berkefield) these filter elements have been providing millions
of people all over the world with water they can trust for more
than 100 years. The clean water kits have been developed as a
simple to use, low cost way of providing clean and safe drinking
water to those who currently have no such supply. It can be used
to convert almost any locally available plastic containers into
a highly effective gravity water filter u nit.
HIGH
EFFICIENCY FILTER
An
effective way of preventing waterborne disease.
Filters
out >99.99% of pathogenic bacteria (E-Coli, Cholera, Typhoid
etc).
Filters
out >99.999% of cysts and parasites (Cryptosporidium).
Filters
out particle contamination down to 0.5 microns in size.
SIMPLE
TO USE
No
specialist knowledge required to set up or use.
Compatible
with most locally available plastic containers.
Pour
untreated water in the top. Receive clean drinking water from
the tap.
NO
POWER REQUIRED
Effective
anytime and anywhere, whether or not power is available.
Removes
the need to boil water for drinking, which can help to prevent
deforestation where fuel is scarce.
NO
CHEMICALS
No
one likes to drink a chemical cocktail. When safe water tastes
good people are more likely to drink in greater quantities, preventing
sickness and dehydration.
LONG-LIFE
REUSABLE FILTER ELEMENT
Filter
surface can be scrubbed clean to prolong life (up to 12 months
depending on water quality). Making the kit cost effective.
THOUSANDS
OF LITRES OF CLEAN WATER IN ONE SMALL BOX
All
the components fit into one small box (126 x 61 x 300mm), making
it cheap and easy to transport and distribute.
BENEFITS
OF THE LIFEWATER KIT
The
LifeWater kit produces high quality water, using no-energy and
is highly reliable. Our friends at Watchmen International have
designed a system enhancing the throughput of water and developed
a system whereby those benefiting are able to use plastic containers
readily and cheaply available all over the world. By tripling
water through-put, and radically reducing the cost of the housing
and water storage, the LifeWater filtration system brings affordable
clean water ‘on-tap' to a whole new ‘market' in desperate need
of clean water.
Trials
in Africa have shown that this ‘low-technology' clean-water solution
is highly acceptable to a range of markets including families,
schools and orphanages previously with no access to clean water.
In Uganda tests have been carried out at a government level, with
the system passing every test!
The
ability of the LifeWater system to deliver potable water at the
point of use reduces re-contamination of water between source
(e.g. a well) and point of use. Evidence of improved health from
the use of LifeWater is consistent and extensive.
Please
join with us and be a part of this project, which could save untold
numbers of lives around the world!
Click
here for more information on the LifeWater kits
